Labor for Palestine National Network (L4PNN) Member Groups

January 10, 2024

Amid the rising outcry against U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza and across Palestine, a growing number of worker organizations have have embraced not only demands for a permanent ceasefire, but concrete action required by the Urgent Call from Palestinian Trade Unions: End all Complicity, Stop Arming Israel and the BDS picket line. 

Now, to uplift and coordinate these efforts, we invite your organization to join us in launching the Labor for Palestine National Network (L4PNN), a grassroots cross-union worker/community alliance based on the Principles of Unity previously outlined here, and below.

L4PNN is being convened by Labor for Palestine, which was founded in 2004 by union and Palestinian community activists to reclaim the legacy of working class solidarity with Palestine in the United States, as reflected in groundbreaking statements by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in 1969 and wildcat strikes against the United Auto Workers (UAW) leadership’s support for Israel in 1973.

To affiliate as an L4PNN member organization (list in formation, below*), please click here. (Questions: info@laborforpalestine.net).

Solidarity!

Labor for Palestine (U.S.) Organizing Team

(Affiliations listed for identification only)

  • Suzanne Adely, US Palestinian Community Network; Arab Workers Resource Center; Food Chain Workers Alliance (staff); President, National Lawyers Guild
  • Monadel Herzallah, Arab American Union Members Council
  • Lara Kiswani, Executive Director, Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC); Block the Boat
  • Michael Letwin, Former President, Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW Local 2325; UAW Labor for Palestine; Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
  • Corinna Mullin, PSC-CUNY International Committee; CUNY for Palestine
  • Clarence Thomas, Co-Chair, Million Worker March; Executive Board, ILWU Local 10 (retired)

*Member Organizations (Updated: April 13, 2025)

  1. Labor for Palestine (U.S)
  2. UAW Labor for Palestine
  3. Amazon Labor Union – IBT Local 1
  4. Teamsters Mobilize
  5. Vermont Labor for Palestine
  6. Wisconsin Labor for Palestine
  7. UCLA Rank and File for a Democratic Union
  8. NYC City Workers for Palestine
  9. NYC Educators for Palestine
  10. Fair Trade Music NOLA
  11. Purple Up 4 Palestine
  12. SAG-AFTRA Members for Ceasefire
  13. United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers, Local 36
  14. 1021 Members for Palestine
  15. AFSCME Local 526
  16. No Tech for Apartheid
  17. Brown Graduate Labor Organization, AFT/RIFT Local 6516
  18. Brown Palestine Solidarity Caucus, AFT/RIFT Local 6516
  19. UAW 2325 Labor for Palestine
  20. L.A. Labor for Palestine
  21. American Federation of Musicians,  Local 1000
  22. Union Nurses for Palestine
  23. Educators for Palestine
  24. NYC Labor for Palestine
  25. Green 4 Falasteen
  26. Bay Area Labor for Palestine
  27. Maine Labor for Palestine
  28. Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association
  29. Youth Against Sweatshops
  30. SENS UAW Local 7902
  31. New Student Worker’s Union
  32. Writers Against the War on Gaza
  33. Theater Workers for a Ceasefire
  34. Tech Workers Coalition
  35. UPTE Members for Palestine
  36. MetaStopCensoringPalestine
  37. Colorado Labor for Palestine
  38. IATSE Members for Palestine
  39. Garment Worker Center
  40. Apples Against Apartheid
  41. UE4Palestine
  42. Labor Community-Alliance of South Florida (LCA)
  43. Healthcare Workers for Palestine
  44. Progressive Workers Union
  45. IWW Palestine Solidarity Coordinating Group
  46. Dancers for Palestine
  47. Connecticut Labor for Palestine
  48. Texas Young Active Labor Leaders
  49. Rank and File SEIU Local 73 Members for Palestine
  50. Labor Committee of Montana 4 Palestine
  51. Steelworkers United for Palestine
  52. The Solidarity Caucus (rank and file group of MAPE members) 
  53. SUNY BDS Labor Alliance

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Principles of Unity

Labor for Palestine National Network 

Reaffirming #LaborShutItDown4Palestine on D15-16, 2023 (December 11, 2023)

We welcome growing union calls for a permanent ceasefire to end the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. Now, we call on our labor bodies to take the next step of fully embracing the Urgent Call from Palestinian Trade Unions: End all Complicity, Stop Arming Israel, and of standing in solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation and return, by:

From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free!

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Background: Why is Palestine a Labor Issue? 

  • An injury to one is an injury to all. The Israeli settler-colonial regime is part of the same U.S.-backed system of racist state violence that brutalizes BIPOC and working class people around the world. With Israel’s knee on their neck, Palestinians can’t breathe, and we unconditionally stand with them, just as they have stood with our struggles for Black and Brown Lives, Standing Rock, migrant rights, and beyond. 
  • Our tax dollars fund Israel. Israel’s crimes are committed with more than $3.8 billion a year (or $10+ million per day) in bipartisan US military aid, tax dollars that should be spent instead on badly-needed jobs, food, housing, healthcare, education, and transportation for poor and working people at home.
  • Our workplaces arm Israel. Many of our unionized factories, logistics, academia, tech, and other workplaces—without our consent—produce weapons, transportation, research, technology, and other materials for the genocidal Israeli regime. 
  • Our unions fund Israel. Our unions are already involved—on the wrong side. In the 1920s-1930s, top labor officials donated millions to the Histadrut, the Zionist labor federation that spearheaded anti-Palestinian dispossession, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing, including the Nakba (Catastrophe) that established the Israeli state in 1948. For more than 70 years, they have used our union dues and pension funds to buy billions in Israel Bonds. Today, despite horrendous Palestinian casualties, most labor officials remain silent—or worse. 
  • Workers can stop Israeli genocide. Fifty years ago, Arab and Black auto workers led a wildcat strike and other actions to protest UAW complicity with Israel. Today, we can follow their example in respecting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) picket line by protesting, bringing union resolutions, and—above all—by mobilizing our collective power at the workplace, as shown by dockers in South Africa, India, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Italy, Belgium, and the ILWU on the West Coast of the United States, which has respected Block the Boat’s community-labor picket line by refusing to handle Israeli cargo. 

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